how did newspapers play a major role in the freedom movement?
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The Indian print media (newspapers, journals and books) started after the 1860s played a very powerful role in educating, convincing and mobilizing people in terms of spreading the nationalist and patriotic ideas. It not only created opposition and hatred against the British rule but also a strong determination to liberate India from the foreign rule.
Extremely popular and powerful newspapers arose after the 1960s which served as public fora for propagating the nationalist political agenda e.g. The Tribune (1878), Kesari, Mahrata, The Hindu, Swadeshi etc.
Small, informal library movements sprang up in every part of India, wherein the villagers would gather around a cot to read and discuss the day's paper. In fact, it became a medium of nationalist political participation for those who could not play a more active and vocal role in the movement. These library movements did a lot to propagate the modern ideas of democracy, freedom, equality and patriotism. More importantly, it played a great role in welding India into a single nation and gave the Indians a sense of oneness and a new national identity, which was non-existent before. This new-found identity played a pivotal role in mobilizing the people's hidden energies into the constructive direction of working for India's freedom.
Extremely popular and powerful newspapers arose after the 1960s which served as public fora for propagating the nationalist political agenda e.g. The Tribune (1878), Kesari, Mahrata, The Hindu, Swadeshi etc.
Small, informal library movements sprang up in every part of India, wherein the villagers would gather around a cot to read and discuss the day's paper. In fact, it became a medium of nationalist political participation for those who could not play a more active and vocal role in the movement. These library movements did a lot to propagate the modern ideas of democracy, freedom, equality and patriotism. More importantly, it played a great role in welding India into a single nation and gave the Indians a sense of oneness and a new national identity, which was non-existent before. This new-found identity played a pivotal role in mobilizing the people's hidden energies into the constructive direction of working for India's freedom.
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In 1872 The Bengal Gazatte or Calcutta General Advertiser was the first newspaper. It came to criticized the British Government. After that many papers came like - The Bengal journal, Madras courier. All these papers came to protest against British and for these papers many regulations also exposed of British. Many reformers expressed their feelings by paper, magazines. Their thoughts, education, ideology developed the people's minds.
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